dispassion (sion as shon)

[Pref. dis, and Eng. pa ion (q. v.).] A freedom from pa ion or perturbation of mind; apathy; peace or quiet of mind. "What is called by the Stoics apathy, or dispa ion , is called by the Sceptics in disturbance." -Temple: On Gar dening. dis-păs-sion-ate (sion as shon), a. [Pref. dis, and Eng. pa ionate (q. v.).] 1. Of persons: Free from pa ion; cool, calm, impartíal, temperate, composed, unbiased. "A critic on the sacred book should be Candid and learned, dispa ionate and free." Cowper : Progre of Error, i. 452, 453. 2. Of things: Not dictated by or done in pa ion; quiet, moderate, impartial. "Reason requires a calm and dispa ionate situation of the mind."-Search: Light of Nature, vol. i, ch. xxi. Crabb thus discriminates between dispa ion ate and cool: " Dispa ionate is taken negatively, it marks merely the absence of pa ion;; cool is taken positively, it marks an entire freedom from pa ion. Those who are prone to be pa ionate must learn to be dispa ionate; those who are of a cool temperament will not suffer their pa ions to be roused. Dispa ionate solely respects the angry or irritable sentiment; cool respects every perturbed feeling: when we meet with an angry disputant it is nece ary to be dispa ionate in order to avoid quarrels; in the moment of danger our safety often depends upon our coolne ." (Crabb: Eng. Synon.) dis-păs-sion-ate-lý (sion as shồn), adv . [Eng. dispa ionate; -ly .] In a dispa ionate, cool, calm, or temperate manner. "They are here delivered dispa ionately ." -Warton: Notes on Milton. *dis-păs-sioned (sioned as shond), a . [Prefix dis, and Eng. pa ioned (q. v.).] Free from pa ion; dispa ionate, calm, impartial, unbiased. "I see dis pa ioned men are subject to the like ignorances."-Donne: Letters, p. 288. dis-pătch', v. & 8. [DESPATCH, v. & 8.] dis-pa-thy, s. [Pref. dis, and Gr. pathos =suffer. ing, feeling; paschō to suffer.] [APATHY.] 1. A want of or freedom from pa ion; dispa ion. 2. A want or absence of sympathy; a point of difference. "It is excluded from our reasonings by our dispathies." -Pais grave: Hist. of Normandy and England , ii. 110. dis-pâu-pěr, v . t . [Pref. dis , and Eng. pauper (q. v.).] 1. Gen.: To deprive of or shut out of the claim to be supported at the public expense, or of the rights of a pauper. "If a party has a current income, though no permanent property, he must be dispaupered."-Dr. Phillimore: Reports, vol. i., p. 185. "The acclamations of the devoted you sands who surrounded him wherever he turned could not dispel the gloom which sate on his brow."- Macaulay : Hist. Eng., ch. v. *B. In trans.: To be dispersed or di ipated; to separate. Crabb thus discriminates between to dispel and to disperse: " Dispel is a more forcible action than to disperse : we destroy the existence of a thing by dispelling it; we merely destroy the junction or cohesion of a body by dispersing it: the sun dispels the clouds and darkne ; the wind disperses the clouds, or a surgeon disperses a tumor. Dispel is used figuratively; disperse only in the natural sense: gloom, ignorance, and the like are dispelled ; books, papers, people, and the like are dispersed ." (Crabb: Eng. Synon.) dis-pěl'led, pa. par. or a. [DISPEL.]